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Goddesses: 1 Divine Feminine

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The Judaeo-Christian tradition lacks any goddess, unlike its predecessors in Mediterranean cultures. Is there an equivalent among its saints, or the Virgin Mary? An exploration in paintings.

June 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pushing it back: depth and repoussoir 2

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Friedrich, Turner, Palmer and Bonnard are among the artists shown, with surprises by courtesy of Cézanne.

June 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting

A Terrifying Beauty: Medusa 1

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Formerly a beautiful young woman, she was turned into a monster by Minerva, and painted by Caravaggio, Rubens, Klimt, and others.

May 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paradise in paintings

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Only Tintoretto and Louis Janmot have dared show their visions of Paradise. For others including Bosch, it couldn’t be envisioned.

March 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The devil you know – in paintings 2

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More Western paintings of devils, from William Blake to Cézanne and Gustave Moreau. Devils become much more human, and dangerous.

January 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1918: Narrative and Figurative

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Narrative works by Corinth, Klimt, and others; figurative work by the same two, Schiele and Munch.

November 19, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Bathsheba and King David: 2 Differing views

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Rembrandt’s masterpiece looking deep into Bathsheba’s predicament, but it was von Stuck who first suggested that she may have been a willing participant.

August 19, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Susanna and the Elders 2: Masters and the modern

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Paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Jordaens, Chassériau, von Stuck and Lovis Corinth give slightly different accounts of this story.

August 12, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Seeing History: Towards a timeline

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An illustrated timeline and overview of how the human visual environment, and perception of it, has changed from ancient times to virtual reality.

January 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Motion and photographic artefact

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What to our ancestors would have been blurred and defective images are now accepted as depicting motion. How our perception has changed, thanks to photography.

December 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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